Roof collapse kills two firefighters, injures nineteen

Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune

Michael Torres visits the mural memorializing his brother Ed Stringer at 49th Street and Loomis Boulevard in Chicago on Wednesday. Stringer was a Chicago firefighter who was killed in a building collapse in 2010.

Michael Torres visits the mural memorializing his brother Ed Stringer at 49th Street and Loomis Boulevard in Chicago on Wednesday. Stringer was a Chicago firefighter who was killed in a building collapse in 2010. (Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune)

Concerned that homeless people may have been taking refuge from the cold and looking for hot spots, Chicago firefighters Corey Ankum and Edward Stringer were killed when the roof of a burning building at 1700 East 75th Street came crashing down on them on December 22, 2010. Nineteen others were hurt.